Jarvis C. McInnis

Exciting news! My book is available for PRE-ORDER! You can receive 30% off when you order directly from @ColumbiaUP using the discount code CUP30 (link below). Official release date is May 13, 2025. For now, check out the cover and blurbs from scholars I deeply respect & admire!

Check out Daniel Ferman-Leon’s new article featured in our Spring 2026 TA issue. #TranformingAnthropology #blackgeographies #antiblackness #financialization

@ctounsel1 Huge congratulations!

Blessed to share that I've been promoted to Full Professor! Many thanks to my village, and glory be to God 🙌🏾

We are pleased to learn that the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has included THE LOWEST FREEDOM in their Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars. buff.ly/qEdhRot

@Reighangillam A beautiful sight! Congratulations, Reighan!

Page proofs! I'm at the page proofs stage of book production!!

@Gyamfi_PhD Thank you, Bright! Hope you’re well!

@ProfMcInnis That’s amazing! Congratulations

I can hardly believe today marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION! To mark the occasion, I’m proud to share it will be released as an AUDIOBOOK later this year, making it accessible to a new audience of readers & listeners!

@andybliu @ColumbiaUP @ASALH Thanks so much!

@ColumbiaUP @ASALH @ProfMcInnis congrats @ProfMcInnis !!

We are pleased to announce that Jarvis McInnis's AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION is the winner of the 2026 ASALH Book Prize from The Association for the Study of African American Life and History. buff.ly/JkwMCjj @ASALH @ProfMcInnis

✨📚Our roundtable on Kali Nicole Gross' new book continues today with an essay by Sophia Evangeline Gumbs on "Honor, Fury, and Reproductive Retribution in Philadelphia." Follow the link below. @PennPress @BlkPerspectives aaihs.org/honor-fury-and…

In this interview, Jamall Calloway, author of IMAGINING EDEN revisits Genesis as a contested and imaginative text, our interpretations of which have shaped ideas of freedom, sin, domination, and paradise in ways that still reverberate today. buff.ly/88RUiKU @USCatholic

My @DukeU English colleague who taught in our department are over 60 years! What a legacy!

@ourhermitage Don’t forget the ascending run at the start of “Countdown.” It goes HARD!

Music Professional on Beyoncé’s hardest/underrated vocal runs! I love it when experts pick out these small things that hide in plain sight in Beyoncé’s music. That woman is a vocal beast.

✨📚Our roundtable on Kali Nicole Gross's latest book continues with an essay by Jenn M. Jackson on "Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times." Follow the link below. @SealPress #VengeanceFeminism aaihs.org/fury-and-disre…

"The civil-rights movement was national in its origins yet global in its reach and expansive in its vision." -- @KeishaBlain @TheEconomist @BrownUniversity economist.com/by-invitation/…

@blkagendareport Thank you @blkagendareport and Roberto Sirvent for the opportunity to discuss my work on this important platform!

BAR Book Forum: Jarvis C. McInnis’s Book, “Afterlives of the Plantation” - Interview with @ProfMcInnis in this week's @blkagendareport: blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum…

Really enjoyed this interview w/@blkagendareport Book Forum re: my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION! I loved this conversation b/c it focuses on how my book speaks to current political & social issues & its utility for activists & community organizers. Full interview below.

Pleased to share my latest book interview for AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION on @blkagendareport Book Forum! I love this interview b/c it focuses on how my book speaks to current political & social issues & its utility for activists and community organizers: shorturl.at/fPMLD

📚Our roundtable on Kali Nicole Gross' new book begins today! Follow the link below to read Antoinette Burton's essay, "Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as 'Loving Correction.'" @SealPress @BlkPerspectives @PennPress #VengeanceFeminism aaihs.org/weapons-of-the…

Enjoyed visiting Albuquerque for the “On the Brinck” Book Award Symposium @ University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture + Planning! As a literature scholar, I could not have imagined my book would find its way to readers in these fields. I am humbled by this recognition🙏🏾🙌🏾

✨This special issue of Global Black Thought invites submissions that explore the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. with a particular focus on his many influences on Black intellectual thought in the United States and globally. @PennPress aaihs.org/cfp-reverend-j…